The City Waites
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Biography
The City Waites is a British early music ensemble. Formed in the early 1970s, they specialise in English music of the 16th and 17th centuries from the street, tavern, theatre and countryside â the music of ordinary people. They endeavour to appeal to a wide general audience as well as to scholars. They have toured the UK, much of Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the USA, performing everywhere from major concert halls and universities to village squares. Collaborations include the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe. They can be heard on several movie and TV soundtracks; they broadcast frequently and have made more than 30 CDs.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Galliard
- Almain
- The Disappointment, or The Force of Credulity, ballad opera~The Disappointment
- The Lusty Young Smith
- Pox on You for a Fop
- Packington's Pound
- Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau; When Celia Was Learning
- The Hunt Is Up
- The Beehive
- Lady of Pleasure
- Mundanga Was
- Seldom Cleanly
- Mother Watkin's Ale
- Green Stockings
- Tomorrow The Fox Will Come to Town (arr. Thomas Ravencroft)
- The Old Wife, song
- Blue Petticoats or Green Garters
- Miss Nelly
- Oh How You Protest
- The Jolly Brown Turd
- Greensleeves and Yellow Lace
- The Miller of Dee
- Lumps of Pudding by The City Waites
- A Bellman's Song
